On September 14th, 2017, we published revised versions of our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Website Use Policy and published a Cookie Policy. Your continued use of Lynda.com means you agree to these revised documents, so please take a few minutes to read and understand them.

- Although I try to keep the sensor of my camera clean,…dust always seems to find its way into it.…Luckily Camera Raw has a quick and easy way…to remove dust and other small imperfections.…I'll start by selecting the spot removal tool…and I can do so by either selecting it here…or by tapping the "b" key.…The spot removal tool has two different types.…Healing is going to help remove your dust spots…by blending in the colors from the surrounding areas…of the good area in order to remove the bad area.…

The Clone option actually makes…an exact duplicate, so it's not quite as good…at blending different areas together.…So let's start with Heal, and you'll notice…that you can change the size of your brush,…you can change the feather, or the softness of the edge,…and you can change the opacity.…For now I'll leave the feather and the opacity…set up at 100%, and then I'll position my cursor,…this blue dashed line, over the spot.…And let's just make sure that we can see the spot.…I want to zoom in, so I'll use "cmd + opt + 0"…

Resume Transcript Auto-Scroll

Author

Updated

6/21/2016

Released

7/27/2015

Camera Raw is more than a plugin. It's a powerful photo editing tool in its own right, capable of taking your photos from raw material to polished gems. In this course, Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost takes you through all of Camera Raw's capabilities, from fixing common but vexing problems to finding more creative uses for the program's rich and nondestructive editing tools. Learn how to correct color, fix perspective problems, and enhance detail and contrast to make images come alive. Then find out how to make localized color corrections, custom black-and-white images, and even panoramas and HDR composites. If you're interested in becoming more efficient in Camera Raw, Julieanne also includes a chapter on using presets, synchronization, and batch processing to automate some of your corrections.

Topics include:

Comparing raw and JPEG files

Correcting lens distortion and perspective correction

Removing chromatic aberration

Cropping and straightening a tilted horizon

Fixing color cast with the White Balance tool

Revealing shadow and highlight detail

Sharpening and reducing noise

Removing haze and adding clarity

Making localized adjustments

Converting to black and white

Emulating film grain

Adding vignettes

Retouching portraits: skin, eyes, and teeth

Automating corrections

Merging images for panoramas or HDR images

Skill Level Beginner

3h 39m

Duration

257,830

Views

Show MoreShow Less

Q: This course was updated on 06/21/2016. What changed?

A: We updated six tutorials to cover the June 2016 Camera Raw update, which includes a darker interface, new Transform tool, and Boundary Warp for panoramas. An overview of the changes is included in the "What's new?" video.